The Geekspeak Lexicon: D

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dashboarded

(DASH·bord·ud) adj. 1. Designed with an interface intended to provide the high-performance feel and excitement of a cube van. 2. Terminated (employee) or closed down (venture) with extreme force while accelerating at high speed without sufficient attention to safety or use of restraints. 3. Terminal condition seen in compulsive enthusiasts of auto racing games in which a real-world construction barrier is momentarily mistaken for a launch ramp or power-up.

deliverable

(dee·LIV·ur·uh·bul) n. Generic term for any objective or milestone which is both promised and impossible to provide. adj. Capable of being provided, but not in the form advertised, on the date specified, or to the customer desiring it.

depeditate

(dee·PED·uh·tayt) v. 1. A management tactic consisting of elimination of essential unskilled positions as a means of providing experienced employees with a convenient downward career path. 2. To cut someone off at the feet as a compassionate alternative to cutting them off at the knees.

dewired

(dee·WY·urd) adj. 1. Untethered to electronic devices by personal choice; antisocial or sociopathic. 2. Having a life, as opposed to having a lifestyle. 3. Having expensive toys one uses infrequently as work tools, as opposed to having expensive work tools that one commonly uses as toys.

digerate

(DIJ·ur·it) adj. 1. Digitally literate; usually at the expense of common sense or emotional maturity.  2. Paradoxically knowledgeable about technology; capable of writing ten thousand lines of perfect code yet unable to correctly spell "softwear".

Dilbertized

(DILL·bur·tyzd) adj. 1. Adhering closely to or modeled after cartoon reality. 2. Made so absurd that it mirrors reality. 3. Appearing to be controlled or managed by a rational individual while actually under the control of a psychotic animal. 4. Made to function normally. etym. From Scott Adams' theoretical research into workplace dynamics in the information technology industry.

dinkronized

(DINK·ruh·nyzd) adj. 1. Carefully aligned to function only when under the control of jerks or peons. 2. By dinks, for dinks. 3. Perfectly aligned with researched customer needs.

droolproof

(DROOL·proof) adj. 1. Comprehensible by the least intelligent segment of the target market; understandable to journalists. 2. Resistant to newbie slobber.